Ghazni

Taliban insurgents Thursday captured Afghanistan's strategically important southeastern city of Ghazni, bringing them a step closer to the national capital, Kabul. Later Thursday, Herat, the country's third-largest city, also fell to the Taliban, a U.S. official told VOA. Kandahar, Afghanistan's second-largest city, was "in the process of falling," the official said, although the Taliban claimed late Thursday to have taken the city, according to some wire services. Afghan government security forces have struggled to contain stunning weeklong insurgent advances, allowing the Taliban to seize control of at least 11 out of the embattled country's 34 provincial capitals and threaten others. Ghazni, the capital of the province of the same name, sits on the major Kabul-Kandahar highway. It links the national capital to southern provinces, traditional Taliban strongholds. Governor 'surrendered' Nasir Faqiri, head of the Provincial Council, tweeted Thursday morning that Ghazni Governor Mohammad Daud Laghmani allegedly struck a surrender deal with the Taliban before abandoning the province and leaving for Kabul with other senior government officials. An Afghan interior ministry spokesman later in the day confirmed to reporters that Laghmani and his associates were arrested by security forces while they were on their way to Kabul from Ghazni and that an investigation was under way to determine whether the detainees intentionally handed over the city to the Taliban. "With the fall of...

Result • Taliban insurgents entered • Government forces regain control of Ghazni city, Territorial changes Taliban control ten of Ghazni Province's districts, and contest six more Belligerents Commanders and leaders (President of Afghanistan) Mohammad Sharif Yaftali (ANA chief of staff) Brig. Gen. Dadan Lawang ( (Commander of Resolute Support Mission) (Supreme Commander) Units involved • • • • • Several contingents • Foreign insurgents (Pakistanis, Chechens and Arabs acc. to Afghan gov.) Strength At least 1,500 3 Army Special Operations teams (ODA's) More than 1,000 Casualties and losses • 140–200 killed (in the whole Ghazni province) • 2 helicopters shot down • 9 injured • 7 U.S. military armoured vehicles destroyed • 500–600 killed (Afghan military claim) • 226 killed (US claim) 150 civilians killed • • Eagle Fury • • Mountain Thrust • • Mountain Fury • • Achilles • • Volcano • Kryptonite • Silver • Pickaxe-Handle • Hammer • Nasrat • • • Eagle's Summit • Red Dagger • Shahi Tandar • Diesel • Mar Lewe • Panther's Claw • • Strike of the Sword • • Cobra's Anger • Moshtarak • Tor Shezada • • • • • • • Major operations • Mountain Viper • Asbury Park • Perth • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Airstrikes • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Major insurgent attacks 2002 • 2007 • • • 2008 • • • • • 2009 • • • • • • 2010 • • • • 2011 • • • • • • 2012 • • • 2013 • • • • • 2014 • • • • • • • 2015 • • • • • • • • • • • 2016 • • • • • • • • • • 2017 • • • • • • • • • • 20...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan forces battled the Taliban in a key provincial capital for the fourth straight day on Monday, following a The Afghan Minister of Defense Tariq Shah Bahrami said Monday that 100 Afghan security and defense forces had been killed in the four days of fighting in Ghazni, in addition to as many as 30 civilians, reports CBS News' Mukhtar Ahmad. "Ghazni City remains under Afghan government control, and the isolated and disparate Taliban forces remaining in the city do not pose a threat to its collapse as some have claimed," U.S. military spokesman Lt. COL Martin O'Donnell told CBS News in a statement early Monday. "That said, the Taliban's attempts to hide themselves amongst the Afghan populace does pose a threat to the civilian population, who were terrorized and harassed by this ineffective attack and the subsequent execution of innocents, destruction of homes and burning of a market." Authorities in Kabul also insisted that the city would not fall to the Taliban and that Afghan forces remained in control of key government positions and other institutions there. Najib Danish, the Interior Ministry's spokesman, said reinforcements have been sent to Ghazni and were trying to clear it of the Taliban on Monday. The U.S. military continued to lend "support to the Afghan-led clearance operation," O'Donnell told CBS News Radio correspondent Cami McCormmick. A photo provided by the Afghan National Security Directorate on Aug. 12, 2018, shows Afghan troops o...

Burqa-clad women walk on a street in Ghazni City, in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, November 15, 2021. © 2021 HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images (New York) – Taliban rule has had a devastating impact on Since taking “Afghan women and girls are facing both the collapse of their rights and dreams and risks to their basic survival,” said Halima Kazem-Stojanovic, a core faculty member of SJSU’s Human Rights Institute and a scholar on Afghanistan. “They are caught between Taliban abuses and actions by the international community that are pushing Afghans further into desperation every day.” Human Rights Watch and SJSU remotely interviewed 10 women currently or recently in Ghazni province, including those who had worked in education, health care, social services, and business, and former students. They described spiraling prices for food staples, transportation, and schoolbooks, coupled with an abrupt and often total income loss. Many had been the sole or primary wage earner for their family, but most lost their employment due to Taliban policies restricting women’s access to work. Only those working in primary education or health care were still able to work, and most were not being paid due to the financial crisis. The Taliban have banned women and girls from secondary and higher education, and altered curricula to focus more on religious studies. They dictate what women must wear, how they should travel, workplace segregation by sex, and even what kind of cell phones women sho...

ḠAZNĪ (or Ḡazna, Ḡaznīn), province and city in southeastern Afghanistan, the latter situated 136 km south of Kabul at an altitude of about 2,200 meters (lat 33°34´ N, long 68°27´ E). Historical geography. Monuments and inscriptions. i. HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY The town of Ḡaznī dominates the route which, from Kabul to Qandahār (Kandahar), skirts southward around the central highlands of Afghanistan and over easy passes, either through the Gardīz and Ḵōst basins, and over the Batay pass and the Točī valley, or further south through the Gomal valley, which provides a relatively easy access to the middle course of the Indus. At the southernmost end of a jagged plateau joining the highlands, the site of the present city is reached over a steep hill dominating the Ḡaznī river, which flows from north to south towards the Kaṭawāz (Āb-e Īstāda; q.v.) basin. Here a small market-town was established a long time ago, perhaps already mentioned by Ptolemy (VI, 18, 4: Gázaca or Gāzaca), and at any rate clearly identifiable with the Ho-si-na where the Chinese pilgrim Hsüan Tsang stopped in 629 (Beal, II, p. 283). In the 10th century, Ḡaznī was described in Arabic geographical accounts as a busy commercial center securing Central Asian and Iranian relations with India (Le Strange, Lands, p. 348). Eṣṭaḵrī (q.v.), who described it as having a river but no gardens, wrote that no other city in the region was richer in commerce and merchandise, for it was the “port” of India (p. 280). Ebn Ḥawqal (...

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An ominous orange glow lit up the sky for miles around. It was after midnight on Aug. 11, and the city of Ghazni, less than 100 miles from Kabul, was on fire. Approaching the outskirts of town in a convoy of heavily armored 22-ton vehicles, the team of Green Berets from Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) Team 1333 took it as the first sign that it wasn’t going to be an easy night. The group was one of three U.S. Army Special Forces–led units converging on Ghazni to save it from the Taliban, which had laid siege to the city over the previous 24 hours in a surprise attack. And the closer the Green Berets got, the worse it looked. Approaching the city, ODA 1333 had to muscle their massive vehicles around bomb craters and abandoned big-rig trucks that the Islamist insurgents had set up as roadblocks. The dismal obstacle course wasn’t just proof that the insurgents had the upper hand over the 1,500 Afghan police and soldiers based in the city, even though those forces were flush with sophisticated American-supplied weaponry. The team soon discovered the wreckage-strewn approach to the city had become a shooting gallery for hidden Taliban. Rocket-propelled grenades and machine-gun fire came screaming in from a tree line to the east—small bursts at first, then all at once. Streaks of heavy fire glowed green in the commandos’ night-vision goggles as two- and three-man Taliban teams shot rockets at the Special Forces before vanishing into nearby scrubland. The U.S. forces returned ...

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